It’s Friday…Big Fish Friday baby!
Today I’m checking out something that isn’t really a traditional instrument or library, but something that can definitely add to your sound toolbox.
It’s a collection of cinematic styled sound fx, hits, and noises.
You know I love this type of stuff, it’s great for adding some spice to your productions or for scoring your next blockbuster film.
This one is simply called Cinematic Sound Design…
let’s check it out
What is Cinematic Sound Design?
It is a collection of Hollywood style sound fx, elements, etc…separated into 13 different categories.
It comes with beds, drones, risers, whooshes, hits, explosions, you know…the good stuff.
They formatted it for Battery, Kontakt, reason, exs24, and general wave so everyone will be able to use it pretty much.
This is definitely targeted at those that do tv commercials, promos, movie trailers, video games, and other types of music for media.
But of course, as with anything, creativity has no limits, you can throw these sounds in your next dance floor smash or hip hop anthem…
it’s totally up to you
Quick Specs
- content: 1.2gb of wave files
- format: wav, kontakt, battery, nnxt, exs
- price: $49.95
How does it sound?
This is all that really matters right?
Well it sounds exactly how you’d expect, big hits, huge explosions, long evolving atmospheric beds, and suspense-building risers and drones.
Everything is well recorded and has that “big sound” right out the gate.
There is enough variety to keep you busy for sure, though I would have liked to see some performance features on the interface itself.
Maybe some quick access to eq, filter, fx, or something like that.
Overall though, very high quality sounds, heavily layered so stuff is pretty complex not just one sound.
Lot’s of transitions and combinations going on in these sounds which I like, pretty awesome for a wave library with no built in performance controls.
What’s the bottom line on Cinematic Sound Design?
I think anyone who loves film/media music, or the elements used in that genre will love this.
I also think it’s great for those who are just starting to explore the genre and may not want to make a huge investment in some of the larger libraries.
At 49 bucks, it’s really a great value because the stuff doesn’t sound cheesy or anything, it sounds like the type of sounds you would take from some of the larger libraries in this genre.
I give it a 4.5 out of 5 subs, I really liked it, I just wish there were some controls on the actual instrument panel to tweak it a bit.
That said, I can’t really find anything wrong with this, and for the price, it allows pretty much anyone to get access to some professional quality fx and noises.
Check the demo over at Big Fish: Cinematic Sound Design
of course let me know your thoughts below
THA LOUDNESS!!! This library is dope. You can tweak the settings of the sounds on the little tool bar right? Thnx for the review…tight. Peace!!
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saintjoe Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:50 am
@Kruz, yeah you can do basic tweaks, or go into the kontakt instrument and tweak, but I like instruments that have more controls on the front. But for the price, this stuff is dope, already sounds ill lol.
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Another dope review Saint Joe I check your site almost everyday and am never disappointed!
I’m looking into buying my first Sound Fx Library and wanted to know:
Would you recommend this library or Wave Alchemy SFX Collection?
Thanks
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Producer Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I make Hip-Hop/Pop Music
I’ll end up buying both libraries but wanted to know which one you’d pick 1st
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saintjoe Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
@Producer, yeah, I’d say this one here….if you like that type of sound, if you just want more general sound fx, then go with wave alchemy.
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saintjoe Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
@Producer, thanks yo! Hmmm…they are both good, I think this one is a lil more movie/cinematic… I think I’d go with this one first personally, but either one is good really.
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Good lookin out!
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saintjoe Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
@Producer, no doubt
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Hey Joe!
Another dope vid. This library sounds are massive with do much impact.
I’m diggin it!
Peace bro
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saintjoe Reply:
August 14th, 2010 at 8:13 am
@everythingbutthegirl, thanks for checking it out yo! Some nice stuff for sure.
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Nice sounds,man. Keep up the good work.
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saintjoe Reply:
August 14th, 2010 at 8:13 am
@William, thanks bro!
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Oh,yeah, man. Thanks for hooking me up with “Fader Pro”. That was a big help to me when it came to learning about Ableton 8 and good ideas on how to go about making beats and music in general.
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saintjoe Reply:
August 14th, 2010 at 8:14 am
@William, no doubt man, its a great resource.
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